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Dublin, Ireland
Project Featured on Mar 28, 2015
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
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The project was commissioned as a result of an international 2 stage competition held in 2007. The site is Moran Park, which occupies a strategic location in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin; it visibly demonstrates the natural fault line between the harbour and the town. The old park was dysfunctional, the abrupt changes in level and the walled-in reservoir reinforced the disconnection between the commercial precinct of the town and the harbour. The project was an opportunity to make a new centre of gravity and reconnect these domains.
The building is wedged in to a granite escarpment and directly relates to the two levels of the park. The upper level at Haigh Terrace reconnects to the grounds of the Royal Marine Hotel and includes a pond, reconfigured as a series of weirs, and a raised belvedere extending towards the sea view. The pedestrian path around the pond continues to a stone paved forecourt at the library entrance; this is enclosed in turn by the Mariners Church, which overlooks the entrance forecourt. A new public space on the footprint of the original bowling-green is envisaged as a garden room, sheltered by a grove of trees.
The extended role of the library as a facilitator for community, educational and cultural events has informed the spatial organization, which offers a mix of intimate and expansive public rooms, places to congregate, or to sit quietly with a book and enjoy the view.
The building is organised into two distinct forms. Along Haigh Terrace is a regular sequence of intimate rooms, workshops, meeting space and reading rooms, with windows that address the street. The park-side of the building by contrast provides voluminous space, the lounge and “piano nobile” above, each with long windows framing views to the park. The tapering roof above, cut with large precast beams and skylights rises gradually up to make the tall slender portico looking out to sea.
The material of the building is spare, a voluminous concrete shell, into within which are inserted oak linings for books and sound modulation. Externally the building is clad in granite, or soft red brick in lime mortar. The large window assemblies and entrance portal are clad in bronze.
The building is wedged in to a granite escarpment and directly relates to the two levels of the park. The upper level at Haigh Terrace reconnects to the grounds of the Royal Marine Hotel and includes a pond, reconfigured as a series of weirs, and a raised belvedere extending towards the sea view. The pedestrian path around the pond continues to a stone paved forecourt at the library entrance; this is enclosed in turn by the Mariners Church, which overlooks the entrance forecourt. A new public space on the footprint of the original bowling-green is envisaged as a garden room, sheltered by a grove of trees.
The extended role of the library as a facilitator for community, educational and cultural events has informed the spatial organization, which offers a mix of intimate and expansive public rooms, places to congregate, or to sit quietly with a book and enjoy the view.
The building is organised into two distinct forms. Along Haigh Terrace is a regular sequence of intimate rooms, workshops, meeting space and reading rooms, with windows that address the street. The park-side of the building by contrast provides voluminous space, the lounge and “piano nobile” above, each with long windows framing views to the park. The tapering roof above, cut with large precast beams and skylights rises gradually up to make the tall slender portico looking out to sea.
The material of the building is spare, a voluminous concrete shell, into within which are inserted oak linings for books and sound modulation. Externally the building is clad in granite, or soft red brick in lime mortar. The large window assemblies and entrance portal are clad in bronze.
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